Apple's Latest Ad Takes Aim at Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' Campaign

[Eidorian]

For pure television watching EyeTV beats Windows Media Center hands down.
Besides if you get a pc with a HD TV decoder card you're gonna pay a bit more and that's the only way to watch live tv on a pc.

Customer Care is so typical. Best one.

We went over this last time and yes it's MPEG-2.

I'm not going to pay $149 for an Elgato when I can pay $50 for the same hardware and just use Windows Media Center.

The Windows 7 version has a better guide and channel support. The Vista version had a better interface when managing though.

 

[sd2009]

Yes.

Not gonna provide any more info on that?

 

[LagunaSol]

Yes.

Ooohhh, this I gotta hear. WE FOUND THE ONE MAC VIRUS VICTIM EVERYONE!

*grabs some popcorn*

 

[smurfjammer]

Yes.

Which ones if I can ask?

 

[shiftmx05]

beautifully written out!

loved it! especially the end "you say, you want a computer with no viruses, crashes or headaches?" "yes" "ughh.." *Walks away*

haha, keep at it apple. microsoft started this dissing war now it is time for payback.

i just hope microsoft makes a good comeback too (without pissing users off) . we need some serious competition

Microsoft started this discing war?
not too sure about that, Apple has always been the instigator..

but regardless it was still an awesome ad!

 

[sd2009]

Ooohhh, this I gotta hear. WE FOUND THE ONE MAC VIRUS VICTIM EVERYONE!

*grabs some popcorn*

He may have been running Bootcamp

 

[Habakuk]

Sweet the ad. Really sweet. I love it. There are some continuity problems (in filmmaking terms; only recognizeable if you watch it carefully) -- but the ad is very accurate.

 

[LagunaSol]

Which ones if I can ask?

Hang on a sec, he's quickly Googling the names of Mac viruses...

 

[eddyg]

Ooohhh, this I gotta hear. WE FOUND THE ONE MAC VIRUS VICTIM EVERYONE!

*grabs some popcorn*

Probably a socially engineered trojan - not much you can do after asking "are you sure you really want to run that application you just downloaded from some dodgy porn site?"

 

[VSMacOne]

Absolutely brilliant
I'm a big fan of these commercials from before I switched sides

 

[HONDAxACURA]

Finally a direct attack against M$. GO APPLE!

 

[Eidorian]

Probably a socially engineered trojan - not much you can do after asking "are you sure you really want to run that application you just downloaded from some dodgy porn site?"

There was the classic MacRumors trojan that was a script disguised as a JPG. Somewhat older ideas from the Tiger days were exploiting the "open safe files after downloading" default in Safari.

 

[macfan881]

as far as i know right now the only viruses for mac and maleware are only from illegal Torrents like iWork but if ur pirating software you deserve that

 

[Winni]

Funny, how in 3 years of owning my macbook I saw that screen only 2 times. Wonder what's the PC ratio.

Zero. And I'm talking about a Windows-based office network. I saw my Macs at home crash with the gray screen of death more often than I saw a Windows bluescreen of death in the last 8 years.

 

[superblockio]

Hang on a sec, he's quickly Googling the names of Mac viruses...

Yeah, and he's still trying to find one. Funny how it is taking him so long

 

[rwilliams]

LOL at all the fanboys on both sides coming out with renewed vigor. Same old tired arguments rehashed for the 83,173rd time.

 

[LagunaSol]

Same old tired arguments rehashed for the 83,173rd time.

It still manages to be fun.

 

[Beric]

Nice and to the point for once.

Agreed. A great ad.

 

[Sambo110]

Great ad! It made me laugh.

 

[harry20larry]

Absolutely hilarious

 

[Sipheren]

Just because there are very few virus's or such for Mac at this point in time does not mean there wont be, OSX can be exploited if someone really wants to, although it is a lot harder.

LINK

It's an old article but its true.

 

[superblockio]

Yeah, these were great ads. Microsoft has been driving me crazy with their stupid "Laptop Hunter" ads. It's good to finally see a response from Apple.

 

[MacFly123]

These ads are simple and effective, and don't smack of desperation like the PC ads.

Great ads Elimination is the best

Absolutely awesome comeback ads! Clean, simple, not confusing or misleading like MS's ads.

What a great come back!

So simple, yet basically blows Windows' entire campaign out of the water. And very funny.

Nice work

Sounds pretty unanimous in here. Usually there are people saying how tired they are of the Get a Mac campaign but these were GREAT!!!

Simple and direct without looking like a fight. They just stated the facts and left it at that. I LOVED the Elimination one!

 

[smurfjammer]

Just because there are very few virus's or such for Mac at this point in time does not mean there wont be

That's like saying that the earth might get wiped out by a meteor, it could happen but at the present time there is no need to panic.

 

[JohnDoe98]

Zero. And I'm talking about a Windows-based office network. I saw my Macs at home crash with the gray screen of death more often than I saw a Windows bluescreen of death in the last 8 years.

Same, I must have seen that screen a dozen or more so times in the last 18 months that I've converted to my MBP. Although I have noticed a pattern, it tends to happen when the system overheats. Interestingly enough, my previous very noisy Dell never had the problem of crashing since the fans were always running in full. However, that didn't stop it cause after a two years it did completely fry out and the one time I got the blue screen of death, it was not resolvable; it really was the computer's death. Let's see how long this MBP lasts. I guess I'd trade fairly frequent grey screens to one crippling blue screen.